What is personal data? - Information Commissioner updates guidance

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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published new guidance explaining its view of what counts as personal data under the Data Protection Act (DPA). Information that is not personal data today may become personal data as technology advances. 

A landmark ruling in 2003 challenged long-held assumptions about what constituted personal data. Michael Durant's case against the Financial Services Authority resulted in the courts defining personal data very narrowly, so that data be... (823 more words)

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